French Fridays with Dorie: Provençal olive fougasse

This week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe – Provençal Olive Fougasse (pp 48-49) was another relatively easy one. It’s a flatbread similar to a foccacia and this one is flavoured with olives (or tapenade in my case!), rosemary and olive oil. The only difficult part was the timing – the dough has to rise for an hour or two and then it needs to chill in the fridge for as long as overnight so don’t start it an hour before you need it! I liked the tapenade flavour – it was nice and pronounced – but next time I might, ahem, make sure I have the right ingredients before I start. I also used thyme instead of rosemary.

Fougasse is meant to be a pretty leaf shape, made just so by the tears and slashes in the dough but mine closed up in the oven – I think my tray was too narrow to allow it to stay in the shape I created and it all puffed together when it baked. Nonetheless, it was a tasty treat to have with a glass of wine and some olives as an apéritif snack and the next day it was even better as I toasted it ans slathered it with some more tapenade and melted some cheese on top. Oh my, THAT was good!

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I guess it must be delicious with the cheese and tapenade spread on it. I sprinkled cheese on top too for the extra oomph 🙂 this is the best flatbread I have eaten…packed with olive and herbs…yummy. Have a great weekend!